The spread of false information and the attempt to limit it did play a major role in the 2020 presidential election, but the type of disinformation and the way it was ...
Deepfake videos haven't been a problem yet in the 2020 presidential race. It's not because they aren't a threat, but because simpler deceptive tactics are still ...
The fake news: A new weekly satire show from the creators of South Park is using deepfakes, or AI-synthesized media, to poke fun at some of the most important ...
In an interview, Trey Parker, Matt Stone and their collaborator Peter Serafinowicz discuss the back story of “Sassy Justice,” their deepfake video that used ...
In the lead up to the 2020 election, KUOW's The Record has focused each week on stories and research exploring the power of misinformation locally, ...
Deepfakes are scary. But the good news for the US election is experts agree a candidate deepfake is unlikely to screw up the 2020 vote. The bad news: The ...
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With two months to go until the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, Microsoft has introduced a new tool to help spot deepfakes, or media that has been manipulated ...
The 2020 U.S. presidential election once again brought to light the emerging threat of deepfakes, a concern that has also been expressed by the World ...
Deepfake videos and images pose a threat in the 2020 presidential election. The AI and machine learning technologies used to create them are more advanced ...
Experts warned about deepfakes misinformation for years after the 2016 election. What came instead was quicker and easier to create: enter the "cheapfakes."
The news: Two political ads will broadcast on social media today, featuring deepfake versions of Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim ...
Deepfake videos are proliferating on social media and the internet, and most of them are focused on politics and the coming U.S. election, according to a study ...
The emerging threat of deepfakes could have an unprecedented impact on this election cycle, raising serious questions about the integrity of democratic ...
As more people gain access to AI and deep learning technologies, it raises the risk of deepfakes being used to generate false videos of political candidates ...
Joaquin Oliver died in the 2018 Parkland shooting, but recently, he urged people to vote in the 2020 election. Oliver's parents used A.I. to have their dead son ...
Conversations around deepfakes and disinformation campaigns are heating up, especially in the lead up to this year's U.S. election. Put simply, deepfakes are ...
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the launch of Microsoft Video Authenticator, a tool designed to spot when videos have been manipulated using deepfake ...
It's 2:00 pm on Monday, November 2nd, the day before the 2020 election. A video of the Democratic candidate saying something unforgivable goes viral on ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Experts are warning of a sophisticated, quite convincing tactic ahead of this year's election cycle. Similar to face-swap apps, more ...
A video of Joseph R. Biden Jr. deceptively edited to make it appear as though he were admitting to voter fraud was viewed more than 17 million times on social ...
Remember that viral video of Nancy Pelosi that President Donald Trump reposted on Twitter last summer? The video, which was altered, showed the Democratic ...
On Nov. 25, an article headlined “Spot the deepfake. (It's getting harder.)” appeared on the front page of The New York Times business section. The editors ...
As the U.S. presidential election approaches, recent advances in artificial intelligence may have the power to influence voters through the use of AI-generated ...
Twitter unveiled its new rules to address synthetic and manipulated media on Tuesday as tech platforms prepare for potential misinformation ahead of the 2020 ...
With the 2020 US presidential election looming, political leaders, presidential candidates and the country's intelligence chief are worried about doctored videos ...
The 2020 election will be unprecedented in many respects. More people will be voting by mail, and there will likely be more democratic participation online than ...
TikTok is banning deepfakes and other "synthetic or manipulated *content*" designed to cause harm and distort the truth. The ban is part of a broader moderation ...
“There's a very high likelihood that somehow, someway, at some point in the 2020 election, deepfakes will play some sort of role,” said Josh Ginsberg, the CEO ...
One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake "intelligence" document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an ...
Technologists unveil the first significant effort to arm reporters and campaigns with software tools to combat the growing problem of "deep fake" videos. The effort ...
The ruling Georgian Dream party says that the 'radical opposition' which has 'zero chance of winning the parliamentary elections' has plans to release ...
A fledgling, fast-evolving technology threatens the best efforts of social media's biggest companies to tamp down disinformation during political season....
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a computer algorithm that they say may help to detect deepfakes by learning verbal tics.
Its genius rests on a human trait: we can't unsee, unhear or unsmell anything. Our senses are primordial devices programmed to extract millions of data points ...
Seven scenarios — from faked scandalous audio to voter intimidation to imagined journalistic corruption — show the sorts of misinformation disruptions that ...
An increasing number of lawmakers are warning that a form of video manipulation, known as deepfakes, could be the next stage of information warfare ahead of ...
Sophisticated fake media hasn't emerged as a factor in the disinformation wars in the ways once feared — and two specialists say it may have missed its ...
Facebook claims it's becoming better at detecting — and removing — objectionable *content* from its platform, despite the fact that misleading, untrue, and ...
The news: A deepfake of the president of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Manoj Tiwari, went viral on WhatsApp in the country earlier this month, ...
Facebook, TikTok and Reddit all updated their policies on misinformation this week, suggesting that tech platforms are feeling increased pressure to stop ...
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the U.S. Congress today spoke with a panel of legal and AI experts to discuss the potential of ...
Produced by a nonprofit that's aiming to convince Americans to vote, the manipulated videos are a striking example of an increasingly worrisome technology.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill that aims to protect voters and political candidates from deepfakes in time for the 2020 election. AB 730 ...
The 2016 U.S. presidential election propelled the threat of disinformation to the forefront of public debate. Americans were shocked by Russian attempts to ...
Despite years of added familiarity, social media giants have found no magic bullet to fight disinformation, or “fake news,” since the 2016 U.S. elections.
AI-generated images, audio and video are increasingly affecting our ability to separate fact from fiction in the political sphere. Today, Donald Trump could ...
If you were feeling confident that the U.S. government and all its states were prepared for the 2020 presidential elections, then the Iowa caucus on Feb.
Deepfake technology uses A.I. to digitally insert a person's face onto someone else, making it appear they are saying things they did not. Deepfake was used in ...
Security experts have warned about the prospect of a new era of high quality faked video or audio, which some commentators worry could have deeply corrosive ...
Deepfake videos can be very misleading and difficult to identify. Learn how deepfake video technology works, and the easiest ways you can spot a deepfake.
As the technology for creating fake videos becomes more sophisticated, and the videos themselves get better and harder to detect, they're showing up in all ...
Grace Windheim had heard of deepfakes before. But she had never considered how to make one. It was a viral meme using the technology that led her to ...
U.S. government officials and technology experts are sounding the alarm about a new social media threat: Fake videos of political leaders and candidates for ...
Audio deep fakes are advancing to sound more realistic, experts warn in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. We tend to trust our ears because we're so ...
Much has been made of the disinformation spread by Russia in 2016 and the threat of "deepfake" videos, but the U.K. election indicates that domestic actors ...
NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit is looking behind the screen to understand what deepfake technology is and the threats it poses by diving into one of the...
McAfee LLC, an American global computer security software firm headquartered in Santa Clara, California, has reportedly launched 'McAfee Deepfakes Lab' to ...
The coronavirus, this is their new hoax.” That's what Donald Trump says—or at least appears to say—in a new political ad airing in states across the country.
"We are already at the point where you can't tell the difference between deepfakes and the real thing," Professor Hao Li of the University of Southern California ...
Several celebrities shared a new advertising campaign that uses manipulated “deepfake” videos of Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader ...
Instagram will likely be the main social media platform used to disseminate disinformation during the 2020 election, while altered “deepfake” videos of ...
As the U.S. presidential election season swings into high gear, the amount of synthetic media targeting politicians is soaring. According to a new report from ...
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling novel forms of deception. AI algorithms can produce realistic “deepfake” videos, as well as ...
While misinformation experts have warned of deepfakes, some organizations are using the technology to drive home a point without trying to fool anyone.
The quality of AI-generated deepfake videos has improved rapidly over the past few years – raising concerns around the potential for electoral interference and ...
Last week, Samsung announced that its lab in Russia can now make a fake video from a single image. Known as "Deepfakes," these fabricated videos have ...
Deepfakes have been lurking on the internet for years now. But in 2020 the AI technology will become a powerful weapon for misinformation, fraud, and other ...
Deepfake online videos are burgeoning as tools and applications to make fictional *content* gets cheaper, lowering barriers for non-experts to make them.
Have you heard about the word deepfake? If not yet, deepfakes are fake videos or audio recordings, manipulated with the use of artificial intelligence technology ...
